Starting up texmacs takes over 1 minute. After this it seems to run slow as well. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start up texmacs 2. 3. Actual Results: I deleted my user settings (~/.TeXmacs) to be sure it is not related to borked user configuration. Running texmacs --debug reveals that the step Evaluating /usr/share/TeXmacs/progs/init-texmacs.scm... is the one that takes over 1 minute, the rest is as fast as usual. > texmacs -d TeXmacs] Installing internal plug-ins... TeXmacs] Opening display... TeXmacs] Try tfm ecrm11.tfm TeXmacs] With linked TrueType support TeXmacs] Loading larm.enc TeXmacs] Starting server... TeXmacs] Evaluating /usr/share/TeXmacs/progs/init-texmacs.scm... TeXmacs] Creating 'no name' buffer... TeXmacs] Try tfm ecrm10.tfm TeXmacs] Evaluating /usr/share/TeXmacs/progs/init-buffer.scm... TeXmacs] Starting event loop... Expected Results: The slow startup arose after upgrading from texmacs-1.0.7.6 which (like previous versions) ran without any problems and started up fast. Texmacs use flags: imlib jpeg netpbm spell svg -qt4 NOTE: I'm not using the qt version (the qt4 useflag is in fact disabled, one cannot even use it) emerge --info Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.28-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r5-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_P9500_@_2.53GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.14 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 15:15:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p7 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r3, 2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.3-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.4, 4.4.4-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests ccache distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.cambrium.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.leaseweb.com/gentoo/ rsync://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/science /usr/local/portage /var/lib/layman/sunrise /var/lib/layman/desktop-effects" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amr audiofile berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups curl cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emacs emboss encode exif fam fftw firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gcj gdbm gif ginac gmp gpm gtk gtkhtml guile hal hdaps iconv imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack java joystick jpeg kpathsea lcms ldap libnotify lm_sensors mad mikmod mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg msn mudflap ncurses netcdf nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp oss pam pango pcmcia pcre pdf perl plotutils png portaudio ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime raw readline sdl session spell ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora tiff truetype unicode usb v4l vorbis win32codecs wmf x264 x86 xcb xine xinerama xml xorg xpm xprint xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse wacom synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Yes. This is specific to 1.0.7.7, and related to searching for chinese fonts all over the filesystem. This has been fixed in the trunk. When the next version will be released, it will start faster.
